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05-24-2018, 05:04 PM | #11221 (permalink) |
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Roger Stone bombshell today..... ruh roh.
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
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05-24-2018, 10:42 PM | #11223 (permalink) | |
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05-25-2018, 06:26 AM | #11224 (permalink) |
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I caught a piece of that the other day while making dinner. Idk the whole story behind it but forcing players to either stand or wait in the locker room sure as **** seems like bull****. Bunch of ****ing nazis who cant handle some peaceful protesting.
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05-25-2018, 06:50 AM | #11227 (permalink) |
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I think it became a trend to play it before games during WWII. It became a sports tradition after the war.
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05-25-2018, 07:09 AM | #11228 (permalink) |
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^ I didn't know that; so it started as a display of patriotism.
Today however, for NFL players, it's turning into a difficult-to-avoid public display of your political allegiance; I feel sorry for the players to be caught in such a bind. Not at all saying that one equals the other, but here is a little-know fact:- In 1979 Ayatolla Khomeini overthrew the King of Iran and established a republic that has survived ever since. I was working in a London office which included three Iranian guys at the time, which is how I learned the following: Surprisingly soon after Khomeini took control, he issued an invitation/order to all Iranians living abroad (who of course were all listed somewhere in government files): they were to go to their nearest embassy to sign a document announcing their support for the new regime. So there is some similarity; like the NFL players, those poor guys were caught in a situation in which they had to make a political declaration of a kind that most of us can keep to the privacy of the polling booth if we want.
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05-25-2018, 08:12 AM | #11230 (permalink) |
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The government pays the NFL millions of dollars for the good PR and Americans are ****ing idiots. If you don't want politics in your sports, don't kick them off with a round of Heil Hitler's.
It'd makes sense if it was an international league I guess.
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